Das Kapital Meets Easy Rider

The Motorcycle Diaries was described as Das Kapital meets Easy Rider. This is kind of ironic because the two comparisons are basically opposites of each other. Easy Rider is this free loving movie about two hippies going on an adventure, while Das Kapital is a socialist/Marxist treaty about anti-capitalism. Marx was very critical toward capitalism and said that "the economic formation of society as a process of natural history". I think the idea of Easy Rider is the intention of the Motorcycle Diaries because he starts out as a young guy in search for an adventure. He later becomes a communist and that is reflected by Karl Marx in the Das Kapital. Che starts as an Easy Rider, but slowly turns into a Das Kapital.